Cookies & Biscuits

I’m back from my holiday! It was my first time to the USA and while it’s nice to visit cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the national parks were the ones which left the deepest impressions. Will try my best to finish up my Eastern Europe trip (oops) so I can start on the…

Here is another Chinese Peanut Cookies recipe (I can never get sick of peanut cookies because they are so addictive!) Instead of using the shortcut method of peanut butter, these are made with ground peanuts, which I roasted, peeled and roasted again before they are ground into a fine powder/paste. It’s a lot more work involved but…

Here’s another Chinese New Year goodie that I love very much since I was a kid – Peanut Cookies! The traditional and authentic chinese peanut cookies are not easy to make at all – first raw peanuts have to be shelled and roasted. The peanut skin is then peeled off and the peanuts are ground into a powder. The peanut…

Here is a another new Chinese New Year goodie that I’ve baked this year – cashew cookies! In the past, due to work, I only have time to make guaranteed-success Chinese New Year goodies, such as my pineapple tarts or kueh lapis, as I don’t have time to experiment on recipes. But this year is different! I have tried…

It’s only one more week to Christmas! How is everyone’s Christmas baking/cooking going? This year I’ve been steering away from the usual log cakes (healthier version one here and the more sinful one here) – baking cookies and assembling a different type of cake altogether. I saw a recipe on stained glass cookies while browsing my cookie cookbook…

Wow can you believe it’s December already? The weather here is getting colder and colder everyday (it was 5C yesterday morning!) and sometimes all I want to do is just wrap myself up in a blanket and snooze away on the sofa… but that will be such a waste of valuable time! So here I am, churning out…

Are you a fan of Oreo? I’m not a super huge fan of them, but there will be times when I have occasional cravings for them. The small packages of 3 cookies make a great snack whenever my mouth is itching for a bite. And the weirdest thing is I like them without the cream, are…

Cookies are one of my favourite snacks – they are small, cute, and feel a lot less sinful when eating one of them as compared to eating a cake. The unbaked cookie dough can also be easily frozen, so I love to freeze some whenever I make cookies and save them for a rainy day. (Figuratively,…

My mint plant had suffered a heat stroke while I was away on holiday in Denmark (the auto-watering system failed to auto water the plant), I’m not sure if it will revive but I’m glad I used some of the mint leaves and baked these cookies before I went away.

When we moved, I thought that I may not be able to find certain ingredients, such as black sesame seeds (as it’s more commonly used in Asian cuisines), so I was quite surprised to find not just white, but also black sesame seeds in the local markets! Black sesame desserts are one of my favourites because of its…

Last day of November! Where did all the time go? Before today ends, I better hurry blog about my oat entry for Little Thumbs Up! I’ve chosen a classic for my oat-themed bake – the oatmeal raisin cookies! I love oatmeal cookies as they are soft, chewy and delicious. In fact, sometimes I will leave…

When I found out that we are baking tuiles for Bake Along – I was really excited because I’ve procrastinated baking them for God knows how long! Originated from France, tuile is a thin and crispy wafer that can be sweet or savoury. “Tuile” means “tile” in French, and is supposed to resemble the shapes…

Have you heard of Totoro? Totoro is a cartoon character in a popular Japanese movie – となりのトトロ / Tonari no Totoro / My Neighbour Totoro. The movie is produced by Studio Ghibli and I’ve always been a fan of Studio Ghibli’s works, such as Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo etc. Recently…

Everyone knows what their perfect cookies is like. Some will want their cookie soft, some will want it crispy, some will want it chewy, some will want it sticky… And some will want a combination of a few characteristics, like soft and sticky or crispy and chewy. What’s yours? For me, I have cravings for…

If you’ve read the post below, you would have known that I am experiencing tons of problems with my .com blog. Maybe I was being a little too ambitious, thinking that it would be a piece of cake to set up a .com. But, apparently that’s not the case! I should have spent more time…

When Nami from Just One Cookbook posted this recipe on her blog, I knew I have to make these yummy little treats. This is a very simple icebox cookie recipe – icebox cookies are cookies made from a dough which has been refrigerated or frozen. The cooling or freezing makes the dough stiffer, enabling the…

Happy early Halloween! Singapore does not have the tradition of celebrating Halloween (no trick-or-treat here), but people here will often buy masks / costumes and party away in clubs. Horror is definitely not my favourite genre since young – I hate watching horror movies and am absolutely frightened of visiting haunted houses, but I love…

I baked these cookies a while back for a friend. Initially I was looking for a tea-honey-lemon cookies as that’s one of her favourite flavour combinations but I couldn’t find any recipe that I fancy. So I changed my search to tea cookies and I stumbled upon these – which are so delicious looking that…

I baked these cookies quite some time back for a class gathering – these were classic butter cookies that were really crumbly and had a melt-in-the mouth texture. It’s really easy to make and I had fun practising my piping skills. I did not reduce the sugar (wrong move here) and I found the cookies…

Whenever I meet up with old friends, I always like to bake something for them. Last weekend, I met up with a secondary school classmate so I baked these awesome -looking cookies for her. I saw this recipe not too long ago and I was immediately hooked. Who could resist a chocolate cookie with a…

They are so irresistibly cute… and melt-in-the-mouth tasty! I saw these Domo-kun cookies on Diamonds for Dessert during the week and I knew I had to make them. Domo-kun is the official mascot of Japan’s NHK television station. It’s a monster hatched from an egg, and despite its large, saw-toothed mouth that is locked wide…

Chinese New Year is round the corner again! It just seemed like yesterday that I celebrated Christmas and New Year… Don’t you think so? This year I’m making pineapple tarts again. I did not try making the jam from scratch – couldn’t find the time to do so and I was worried that I’d fail…

I always believed that food serves as a medium to bond people together. Dining together allows people to sit around a table and exchange conversations and catch up with each other’s lives. Though I like dining out with my friends, I still prefer to invite them over and cook up meals and bake desserts…

I had a major craving for something really chocolatey a few days back, so I went to re-bake these cookies. I forgot how awesome these cookies are: they are so chocolatey, sweet, chewy, soft and delicious. My whole house smelt like a chocolate factory while baking them – these cookies are that chocolatey! This recipe…

Cookies and milk! Soft and chewy rum ‘n raisins chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Trying saying the name of these cookies as fast as you can! Ughh, I got tongue-tied. So… I took a break from making cupcakes! Heh. Am still trying to squeeze in the time to make one more batch of cupcakes… hopefully I…

Chinese New Year, aka Lunar New Year, aka Spring Festival, is the most important festival of all of the Chinese traditional festivals. It begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends 15 days later. Nearing the festival, people will spend lots of money purchasing Chinese New Year decoration…

Going to reuse an old photo because I forgot to take photos of the baked cookies this time! I’m back! I am going to blog about these cookies before I become overwhelmed by school work. (: When I started my blog, these cookies are the first thing that I blogged about. And now, this blog…